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\u201cPeople think that only the future can be changed, but in fact, the future is continually changing the past<\/strong>. The past can and does change. It\u2019s exquisitely sensitive and delicately balanced<\/em>.\u201d -Keiichiro Hirano, At the End of the Matinee<\/em><\/p>\n

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When we think about time, we tend to divide it into three dimensions: past, present, future. We also tend to accept certain beliefs about each dimension without much questioning.<\/p>\n

The present time is the \u201chere and now.\u201d It\u2019s what\u2019s currently happening<\/em>. The future, alternatively, is what will<\/em> happen. It\u2019s what will come to be<\/em>.<\/p>\n

In both of these dimensions, there are many possibilities. We could do all sorts of things right now, and we can make all kinds of choices in the future. (Ignore, at least for the moment, the debate over whether we really have free will<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Unlike the present and the future, the past is locked in. Short of inventing the elusive time machine, there\u2019s not much we can do to change the past. We simply have to accept it and move on. Or do we?<\/em><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the concept: the way we experience the future affects our recording of the past. In some cases, we can actually change the past<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The past lives in our memories, and these memories are far from reliable. We are the unreliable narrator of our own story. We might exaggerate our successes or magnify our failures out of proportion. These tendencies are not mutually exclusive: we might do both at the same time!<\/p>\n

There are at least three ways the future can change the past. I suspect you\u2019ll relate to one of them, if not all three.<\/p>\n

1. The Effect of New Experience<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Think back on a time in which you really wanted something\u00a0and didn\u2019t get it<\/em>. You wanted to gain the acceptance or approval of someone. You wanted a relationship to succeed. You wanted to be offered a job or admission to an elite program. Whatever it is, you wanted it badly, even\u00a0desperately<\/em>\u2014and you didn\u2019t get it.<\/p>\n

When you failed to achieve your goal, you experienced feelings of despair. For a long time afterwards, it hurt to think about it. You wondered if you should have tried harder or done something differently. (We\u2019ve all been there!)<\/p>\n

As painful as it was, however, you eventually reached a turning point. Something else came along that wouldn\u2019t have been possible in the alternative universe you so desired\u2014yet, clearly, this new thing turned out to be much better.<\/p>\n

Looking back later, you see the original situation in a whole different light. Now you understand that instead of that situation serving as a low point of your life, something you always wish had turned out differently, it\u2019s taken on another role entirely:\u00a0the time you didn\u2019t get what you wanted, thank God<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Just think about that. The thing you most wanted was the very thing you didn\u2019t need.<\/strong><\/h4>\n

This isn\u2019t simply a matter of interpretation. In these situations, the past is literally different because of something that took place \u2026 in the future.<\/p>\n